There was a jolly miller once,
Lived on the river Dee;
He worked and sung from morn till night:
No lark more blithe than he.

Love in a Village (1762), Act i, scene 2.

And this the burden of his song
Forever used to be,—
I care for nobody, no, not I,
If no one cares for me.

Love in a Village (1762), Act i, scene 2. Compare: "If naebody care for me, I'll care for naebody", Robert Burns, I hae a Wife o' my Ain; "I envy none, no, no, not I, And no one envies me", Charles Mackay, The King and the Miller.

Young fellows will be young fellows.

Love in a Village (1762), Act ii, scene 2.

'Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.

The Maide of the Mill (1765), Act i, scene 1.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.